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Cover: September 2008
Which WMAs hold the keys to your 2008-09 hunting success? Find out in this issue.[…]
September 2008
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The X-Factor
A deer walks into range. Quietly, the hunter takes aim through his scope. At just the right moment, the safety is clicked off and the hunter gently squeezes the trigger to send an arrow through the broadside buck.[…]
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New protectant perfect for duck marsh
With teal season beginning this month, and the full-fledged duck season only a little while behind it, the annual trek to the salt marshes of our coastline will begin.[…]
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Six Shooter
After searching high and low for a redfish around Lafitte, Capt. Frank Lawson instructed me to pull it in.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Where are Big Lake’s reef hotspots?
Dear Capt. Paul:
Can you give me any coordinates for reefs in Big Lake? I’ve only been fishing there a short amount of time and I only seem to catch trout when the birds are working. I would like to be able to catch trout anytime.[…]
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Active bass putting on Lipstickers
Everybody was baking before and just after a mid-July weigh-in for a major-money bass tournament on a hot day at Lake Neely-Henry in Alabama.[…]
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Time for duck hunters’ wake-up call
Each year when duck season closes in January, most hunters simply park their mud boats and forget about them. We usually have other things such as fishing, cruising and water skiing on our minds.[…]
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Good tools make for easy fly tying
Here’s a question I’m often asked: Why tie flies when you can buy them online so cheaply? One reason is, trite but true, nothing is as rewarding as catching a fish on a fly you tied yourself.[…]
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Catch and release in water or grease
My pick for September as the best place to catch bass is Venice. I like bass fishing out of Venice then because of the very hot weather, and this area has plenty of moving water.[…]
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Tasty paddlefish legal for rec harvest
Paddlefish, or spoonbill catfish as they are often called by freshwater fishermen, are a primitive fish species found in almost all of Louisiana’s natural water bodies.[…]
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Big Bucks on Small Tracts
Having been involved with deer management work for 30+ years, it is my opinion that hunting white-tailed deer in the South is more challenging than in any other region of the United States.[…]
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Rock’N Reds
Art Cosby Jr. is one of my favorite people to fish with. Really, he is. But on this fall day, the man wanted to go catch bulls in Southwest Pass.[…]
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Redfish Workout
Bayou La Loutre, I think most will agree, is among our narrower thoroughfares for accessing honeyholes. Compared to the Barataria Seaway, the Houma Navigation Canal and what used to be the Empire and Buras canals, it’s a ditch.[…]
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Not all batteries are created equal
Many fishermen and boaters call any sealed, maintenance-free marine battery a gel battery, and that isn’t correct. We discovered in the charging column the differences between types become more than just semantics if you destroy a battery by using the wrong charger on it.[…]
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Makin’ Bacon
When I’m hungry for fish, I don’t care if the fish are hungry,” proclaimed John Supan with a puckish grin. “I love to hook-and-line fish sometimes, but throwing a recreational cast net is much more efficient. It’s fun, too.”[…]
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Kings of the Road
Over four decades of rolling down Louisiana Highway 1 to Grand Isle, I’ve whizzed by hundreds of them — those stalwart souls fishing off the shoulder of the road or its bridges.[…]